Food Wars

[nonethewiser]

Say everything is bigger in good old US

 

[Madeline]

That is a horrorshow

 

[Inka]

It reminded me of that old French and Saunders sketch, Bideford v. Florida, where they compare ‘big’ British packets of food with absolutely ginormous packs of US food It used to be on Youtube but I can’t find it now. It’s on iPlayer for those who remember it. Starts around 3min 20 secs:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p032khw6/french-and-saunders-series-6-episode-6

Back to serious things - I do hate unnecessarily large portions. I remember buying a ‘regular’ drink at the cinema and being given something I’d have described as a small bucket. Normalising over-sized portions is bad IMO.

 

[trophywench]

Hear ruddy Hear Inka !

 

[Madeline]

It’s been like that for a long time too, I can remember seeing bucket sized popcorn portions at baseball games when I was a teenager (so getting on for 40 years ago!). There’s fat, and then there’s American superobesefat, and watching that I can see how. They’ve normalised huge portions, 2000 calories in one meal is obscene.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I saw a poster in a hospital once which basically highlighted thesame thing. Comparing various portions of things from the 1980s vs today or something like that.

People joke about wagon wheels etc getting smaller but the examples they showed were shocking. A chocolate muffin now is at least 4x the size of what it would have been!

 

[trophywench]

that's 100% true Mike - you cook individual cakes is a 12 hole bun tin and I estimate the chocolate sponge cake to which you refer (muffins are actually made from much more like bread dough so I refuse to call them muffins) takes at least 3x the amount of raw cake mix than one compartment of the normal 12 hole bun tin to which I refer.

 

[Madeline]

You’re not wrong, I bought a silicone one, and my fairy cake cases are lost inside the holes!